Chinese Government donates 1.55 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses worth $27.9 million in August 2021

The Chinese Government delivered 250,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Iran on February 28, 2021 (see project ID#95727). Then, on April 15, 2021, the Chinese Red Cross Society delivered 400,000 donated doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Iran’s Ministry of Health (see project ID#95728). The Chinese Government delivered two additional batches of donated Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine doses to the Government of Iran in August 2021. The first batch consisted of 700,000 doses (see project ID#95729) and the second batch consisted of 1,550,000 doses.

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1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine dose is $18 (https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DCD/DAC/STAT(2022)33&docLanguage=En). As such, AidData has estimated the monetary value of the August 2021 donation of 1.55 million Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine doses as $27,900,000.

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